Outsourcing Live With Tyrone

Hi, my name is Tyrone Shum and I'm here to help you with learning how to outsource and and apply it to be able to use it to your business' advantage. I'll join you through your journey of choosing the right outsourcing course to hire your first virtual staff.

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Outsourcing Research Tasks

Basically a lot of people happen to be returning to me and saying, “Tyrone, I’m wanting to setup a system where I'm able to get my virtual assistant or my virtual staff in order to research on certain topics and so forth…” and it’s actually quite easy to perform. All you need is to ensure that you provide the right system. So what I want to reveal to you today is how to complete that and how I start setting all this up. Fairly recently, I had lots of individuals who were doing a lot of work for me then getting a lot of research done for my niche selection topics. Now, what I’m talking about this is the niche duel challenge that I’m running currently with Pat Flynn. And so, it requires a lot of time and energy to move through then find the right niche markets then to find the correct products that will suit what we’re currently doing for our projects. Thus I outsource all that research tasks and so all that type of niche area selection then so on. And so to try to to that properly and so to perform that correctly is firstly I have to encourage them to understand exactly what I expect. I try to acquire every piece of information that I have in my head and then indicate it into a video tutorial or into a record to enable them to know exactly detail by detail what to try to to. So the first thing I suggest you do is to produce a simple video recording. Probably no more than 5 minutes and so you can use a really good software called Jing. Or if you don’t have Jing and so you don’t want to download it, it’s free, you can use Screenr.com which is also free online screen capturing software and so screen capture exactly what you want her to try to to. And so let’s just take as an example, I wanted my virtual assistant to undertake a research task on Clickbank to find out which markets would be viable to market and so promote products in a specialized niche which is untapped. And, it wasn’t that difficult. All I had to is just get my Screenflow software on then I said look, please go here, click there, go here then primarily bit by bit process of what she needs to do. And so she needs to try and do 20, 30 of these kind of researched topics then obviously she knows the procedure that’s going all in there. And that’s how I begin recommending her to undertake research topics. Otherwise, if she needs to undertake something that I think that she’s quite intuitive and if you allow them the responsiblity too, I'd just say look to complete research topic on say this specialized niche, please go out then find 10 top topics that you would want to consider then also potentially producing content. This is a two-hour time frame that you have for getting this completed and so go ahead and do it. Now, notice how I said two hours or time frame limit. If you don’t specify that, you generally are providing them with a legal limit as a way to say look, I’m going to go out there and just spend as many hours as I need. Hopefully they don’t do that but if you don’t restrict the time, it really doesn’t know how long they should be spending on a task. By forcing a time say 2 hours, 1 hour for research topic then it allows them to think okay, I’ve got to specify within say 2 hours, I have to spend 20 minutes or say 12 minutes on each topic researched then that’s it. Thus that’s how I go about researching topics or researching tasks. The other thing I just want to say as well, too is I don’t recommend sending these materials via email to them because it’s tough to keep track of what’s going on. As I’ve recommended numerous times to a lot of my students as well as a lot of my members is to use a project management system. A project management system allows you to observe all the things that are happening inside your project. Thus project management system I would recommend is using ActiveCollab. And so inside ActiveCollab, you can do, you can set it all up in order to setup your projects, setup your milestones and the tickets which is simply to-do tasks. If you don’t have ActiveCollab, try BasecampHQ as well. That’s an excellent piece of project management software. And so that’s essentially how you start setting up your research tasks to your virtual assistant and just be certain that they understand what you want to do since the more that you specify and so the more you’re clear in regards to the description and the tasks that you’ve got in hand, the quicker you get it done.

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Is Outsourcing Exploiting Cheap Labor?

In today’s topic, I’m sharing along is that I’m going to be talking about “Is outsourcing taking advantage of cheap labour and hurting local small companies?” And the reason why I raise this question up is I just received an e-mail from a local outsourcing company here that said to me, “Hey Tyrone I believe you’re really, really not doing a very good job because you’re exploiting cheaper labour than what it is than what we’re allowed to be charging here.” Seemingly,it will cost at about $1500 here in the community to engage a virtual assistant for a small company whereas I can teach people how to outsource and look for people for around about $300-$350 US per month and they’re charging about $1500 US about to be able to engage and outsource to these people. Now don’t get me wrong. I’ve got not an issue with that. And, it’s definitely already half the price of what costs to hire just a local executive assistant here. Like any executive assistant, you’d be checking out paying them a minimum of $3000 to $4000 every month just to have them work in your office full-time and also too, do the work that you need them to do and on top of that, you’re going to add on super taxes, etc and the like so in reality it’ll be more than $4000. But to employ a virtual assistant, a full-time virtual assistant doing work for 40 hours a week locally here with an outsourcing company costs you in approximately $1500 and that’s included everything. You don’t need to bother about the taxes, you don’t have to worry about super annuation, you don’t worry about setting computer for them and so on. And he commented that It looks like he thinks that I’m really taking advantage of it really cheaply because to hire someone for $300 every month is really, really low-priced like it’s less than a dollar or $2 an hour. And, now I’m going to give you my opinion. I know that some individuals are going to get really edgy with this. So I’m going to present you with my point of view and how and where I sit on it. I believe, outsourcing is an additional way to supply a job for someone else and also to be able to give them skills and a livelihood. The real difference between hiring someone here and hiring someone overseas say in Philippines, or India or any of those other countries and particularly for me, I hire people in the Philippines, is that their economy is really different. Tthey have a different currency exchange to us. And if you’re to visit there and basically live their standard living, the price of living would be so, so much lower and as a consequence that’s why their wages are so much lower. However in the comparison, they’re getting just about the same say income as what we would be getting here but our exchange rate exchanges so therefore it looks like it’s so much cheaper. Say somebody in the Philippines they’re getting paid 20,000Php per month just as a full time programmer. 20,000Php a month equates to roughly about $400 US per month, approximately. Whereas here in Australia, you’re probably looking at hiring a full-time programmer for roughly about 10K per month like for a really, really serious type of programmer that I’m hiring in the Philippines. Now, 10K -- $10,000 AU versus 20,000Php, 10,000 you can do a lot of things in Australia. Standard living is much higher that’s why you ought to be paid that much higher. And also too, $10,000 takes you quite a bit of way but after you pay your mortgages, your food, your expenses and stuff, you might only be left with maybe about 5 or 4K every month or so. So the cost of living is really high whereas in the Philippines, 20,000Php really does push them a lot further as well, too. So in terms of propotional scale and also the standard living, it’s greatly relative. And that’s the reason why people just don’t understand that I’m actually doing a good thing to supply a job for people inside the Philippines and paying them that kind of rate. And, if I had to employ someone here, yes person here might not get a job here but I’m actually providing a job for someone overseas. And because we are a world economy now with internet, with quick access with social media marketing, we can have accessibility to resources similar to that. Basically you can contact someone and you will be able to get in contact with someone instantly. Whereas in the past, to get into the economies and scales, to get into all those kind of resources it’ll take you days, weeks, months even just as a way to access it. So time does change and if you’re not staying in touch, particularly large companies right now like large telecommunication companies, they’re outsourcing to Philippines, they’re outsourcing to India and they’re outsourcing to Russia. All those countries out there, their economies and scales are basically in proportion but their exchange rate makes it look like as though they’re not getting as much back. So that’s the reason in my opinion why It looks like it’s not a bad thing, it’s a great thing. You actually give a job for someone else. And yes the person in the community, you may lose the job but that means that they’ll have to go out and be a little bit more either a better entrepreneur to look for a job and upsell their skills and be a little more specific and professional because the more professional you are at a particular skill, the less demand there would be. So I’m just going to reiterate on what I’m saying. It’s not a bad thing, we’re not taking advantage of cheap labor, we’re actually getting a benefit here and also providing a benefit for other people overseas and moreover, small enterprises can usually benefit from this if they think they’re going to be hurt by this. If you are not starting to outsource as small business in order to be able to compete with medium to large sized companies, you’re falling behind the eightfold because I know that a lot of large companies are already doing it already. You may have heard this when you pick up the phone, it gets re-routed over to the Philippines and you’d be chatting with a Filipino. It’s common, I’ve been hearing that myself and I’ve even had times when I said, “So which part in the Philippines are you from?” They go Manila, Cebu, I’m not surprised.

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How To Outsource – Your Current Mystery Maps To Outsourcing

Through the years that in fact I’ve gotten outsourcing to the Philippines, I’ve discovered massive amount different ways to find, contact and supervise virtual staff, putting together up the “complete” outsourcing operation. Go on it one step further and you may generate a formula which allows everything to be on autopilot and your virtual staff to manage your internet business. This will help you step away and invest that time doing the routine you indulge in with the people you love. Therefore what I have done is set up a list of articles that can support you through the process of how to outsource. Many visitors have asked me very similar enquiries and you will soon find that I have answered most of them in lots of detail with the video tutorials and patterns I provide below. If you can’t find anything below that answers your dilemma then I would love to hear about it. Just shoot me your questions or message via my contact page. Alright, let’s get into! I’ve put all things into unique divisions for you. 1. Where To Find People To Outsource Where a lot of people start at the beginning is to jump onto sites like Elance or Odesk to find people to acquire and do work for them. I don’t commend going to those sites to set out because a lot of people there are contractors and searching out project work. If you are seeking to setup a venture with a group to cope with and mechanize your online business, then you need to start considering hiring long-term full time virtual staff. I’ve referenced JUST 3 sites that I use and recommend because this is where I’ve found full time and part time virtual staff starting at $250 a month. 1. Bestjobs.ph - One of Philippines leading job seeking websites. I’ve put together a blog post about why this is an appropriate site to make use of and you can see how to gain access here.

2. Get Virtual Staff Finder - This is a service that helps you find virtual staff from the Philippines and is a “quick” service basically because they do the ground work for you. There is a team in the Philippines that goes out and searches the people to settle on your regulations and comes back with a list of 3 candidates that best satisfies. If you are time poor and need virtual staff now, then this service is for you! You can watch an interview I did with the CEO to see why I have utilized this service several times.

3. Zirtual.com – This is a well known site for locating quality virtual staff from any around the world and because they have a strong delivery operation in place, only excellent applicants are listed. My good friend Maren Kate formed this site for entreprenuers like you and me and I’ve found some fantastic people to work for me. And you might be still wondering why hire full time or part time virtual staff? Watch my video on Who Are The First People You Should Outsource To and this will explain why I suggest only going that approach. 2. How To Outsource To The Philippines There are many steps that I highly recommend you take before you have work delivered to your virtual staff. These can help you setup your internet business much more efficiently and potentially eliminate pointless work. I’ve listed below a list of articles that are matched with these processes and these are the same techniques I go through with my virtual staff: 1. Apply the 80/20 code to your business – this is really important as it helps you plan to end additional work which you may be doing. Once you have this idea in your thoughts, then apply it to outsource the work 2. How to hire a virtual assistant webinar (1 hour and 10minutes) - Pat Flynn from Smart Passive Income invited me onto a webinar to ask me to establish some pointers on hiring a virtual assistant from the Philippines. This was a very in depth hour long evaluation where Pat asked a lot of the regular inquiries people deal when they are seeking to hire a Virtual Assistant. I discuss a lot of pointers, solutions and products that anyone can use. 3. Train your virtual staff step by step – give your time into creating thorough lessons and documentation. Once you’ve done it once it will be there for other virtual staff and by then your team will supervise your enterprise for you. DON’T SKIP this step! Alternative “How To Outsource” Video Tutorials: 1. How To Outsource Your FaceBook Landing Page 2. How To Outsource Research Tasks 3. How To Outsource Scheduling 4. How To Outsource Data Entry And Transcription 3. Ways to Administer Your Virtual Team The process of hiring the services of and coaching a virtual staff is only one portion of the “complete” outsourcing process and there are other aspects you could think about as well when handling a team. I’ve listed below stories that will assist you to keep in touch, pay and manage your virtual team, whether you have just one person or 100 people: 1. How to communicate with your virtual team using Jing 2. How to pay your virtual staff using Paypal Mass Payment 3. What is the 13th month bonus? 4. How To Manage Your Outsourced Team With Minimal Effort? 4. What Approach Should I Use 1. Activecollab – An exceptionally strong and functional project management system that I actually use in my own business. It is multifunction package so to observe and take all your projects, share documents, keep instruction materials and is actually compatible with portable devices including the iphone. 2. BasecampHQ – An alternative to Activecollab. I’ve utilized and evaluated the program and one of the advantages of this is it’s ease and an easy to use interface. Usually there are some qualities it does not include just like the ability to put training materials and login passwords as well as the expense of memory space increases as your team develops. This is really for the novices and a good system to start off with if you are on a budget. 3. Dropbox – Right here is the quickest way to store and share any folder no matter document, spreadsheet, movie, tunes, graphic or really whatever you need your virtual team get to them. A basic drag and drop file sharing structure which is a must for your team. You get 2GB for FREE! 4. Efficiency Tools I suggest – Part 1 – Inside this article I share with you tools such as Evernote, Lastpass and Freedom, which can help your virtual team save time and boost their overall performance. 5. Productivity Applications I like to recommend – Part 2 – Besides the tools I contributed above, these will help you administer your team’s regimen and also trace their development using tools such as Remember The Milk and RescueTime. 5. Simple tips to Mechanize Your online business 1. Creating Passive Income Using Outsourcing – Discover how it’s achievable to setup a variety of passive income websites with a virtual team who does all the work for you. 2. Top 3 Tips On Outsourcing Traffic – Many people have asked me to share tips I can give to push audience to a website. Well, I’ve added my secret compound, and that’s outsourcing! I use my team to do the work that it needs to get traffic to my website and it works best. 3. Living The 4 Hour Work Week - Once you’ve setup the solutions and it’s integrated and so that you can either walk a strategy and do the routine you love and enjoy or connect with family and friends, then where do you turn next? If you don’t have a business and are looking to start one virtual, then check out my niche site duel challenge I did with Pat Flynn. Inside these productions I show you how I outsourced generating these niche websites to my virtual team and how it has now turned out to be a passive income business. You can also watch my webinar on how to decide on a money making niche market, which is a place to begin in finding to get an internet integrated company. 6. Real Life Outsourcing Case Studies Occasionally it just takes a little notion to start earning and I know when I first started out outsourcing I wish I had role models to learn from. Lucky for you I’ve compiled my favourite case studies below presenting you how these normal people outsourced their Internet business and produced the flexibility and model they enjoy. Some are also students who have graduated from the Mass Outsource Mastermind course: 1. From Managing 200 Employees To Becoming The Virtual CEO 2. How A Hair Dresser Travels The World Whilst His Virtual Staff Makes Money For Him 3. Going From Mercedes Benz Manager To Owning A Million Dollar Outsourced Internet Business 4. Spiritual Health Healer Hires 3 Full Time V.A.s To Free Her Time 5. Affiliate Marketer’s Success With Outsourcing To The Philippines 6. Internet marketer reveals his outsourcing secrets